If you tell them the consequences ahead of time, they will weigh the fun versus the penalty. The penalty simply becomes an additional cost for whatever they are planning.
Very true. Raising Glyph, we always went with the generic ‘consequences’ punishment. I can’t think of a single time we had to use it. Mostly, we let the consequences take care of themselves.
Heh. You don’t recall all the times I shook my head, and said, “I’m sorry you chose to do that..”
To which she eventually would wail, “Noooooooo, Mommy! Don’t say that! Don’t say that!”
She’s a great little person. She figured out early on that prior planning prevented piss-poor results. If course, she also developed the Instant Negotiation Reflex, since I’m amenable to a reasoned case, and will happily change a “no” to a “yes” if I’m given good reason to.
Tempest in a Teardrop: The Churchians 
If you tell them the consequences ahead of time, they will weigh the fun versus the penalty. The penalty simply becomes an additional cost for whatever they are planning.
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Very true. Raising Glyph, we always went with the generic ‘consequences’ punishment. I can’t think of a single time we had to use it. Mostly, we let the consequences take care of themselves.
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Heh. You don’t recall all the times I shook my head, and said, “I’m sorry you chose to do that..”
To which she eventually would wail, “Noooooooo, Mommy! Don’t say that! Don’t say that!”
She’s a great little person. She figured out early on that prior planning prevented piss-poor results. If course, she also developed the Instant Negotiation Reflex, since I’m amenable to a reasoned case, and will happily change a “no” to a “yes” if I’m given good reason to.
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